Word: shuppan
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...Japan vs. History: Yamakawa Shuppan, which publishes history textbooks used in nearly half of Japan's high schools, airbrushed its account of the casualties inflicted during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre by deleting the words "tens of thousands to 400,000" and leaving "many Chinese"; the Ministry of Education approved the revision...
...Sugihara's 89-year-old widow, Yukiko, is the suit's plaintiff of record, but the case's true motivator is Katsumasa Watanabe, the mastermind behind Japan's burgeoning Sugihara-deification industry. He owns Taisho Shuppan, a small Tokyo publisher that produces books on only two subjects: railway history and Sugihara's heroism. Watanabe says he was "blown away that such a man existed in Japan," after happening upon a TV documentary about Sugihara in 1991. Watanabe immediately sought out Yukiko Sugihara and published her two memoirs along with three biographies of her late husband. These days, Watanabe leads...
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